Leather wallets do it yourself

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I want to talk about my experience in the manufacture of leather wallets.

Manufacturing leather products in about a year. The first package of skin trimming for sample and study bought in August 2016. After that, everything started.

Well, to business.

Immediately decided to make four wallets. Such "mass production" is associated with the desire to save time. If you perform all operations sequentially four times the time goes much more than doing each operation wholesale.

For the manufacture of wallets, two types of skin chose: Crazi Horse (red-brown) 1.4 mm thick and KRS skin with embossed "Cayman" with a thickness of 1.1 mm black. With embossed leather used and lining skin with a thickness of 0.5 mm. The threads used the waxed thickness of 0.8 and 1 mm.

First, cut the workpiece

From Cayman

And Crazy Horse

These are all billets on four wallet

Used tools: a rotary knife, a ruler, a small knife jamb for rounds and corners, well, a rug for cutting.

Gearing lining skin and some details

The result is pleased

Used the glue niphite, spatula and steel roller

Now you need to make a hardware (thinning of the edge of the skin) of pockets for cards.

The result of the coat

View from the end

Gearing the first card pockets

Location of stitching punch with an osospham punch with a pitch of 3.85 mm

Stitch. Shing all your products only with your hands and a saddle seam. Thread thick 0.8 mm. I use homemade shore pony - such wooden vice for retention of the product at sewing.

Three pockets are punctured and stitched

I squeeze the fourth pocket and flashing one of the sidewalls. The second sidewall and the bottom of the pockets will be pasted later.

Skincing and flashing a big pocket. Seam marking lines are visible.

A set of one wallet is ready for final stitching

Two sets

Four sets

I start to cross together the wallet halves. Since I do not want to make nodules on the seam, I rejoice the thread long and flashing everything at once.

I squeeze the second half of the wallet and leave to dry.

while the glue dries, I flash the second

so one by one

glue and sis

Almost everything is ready. Left to handle ends and finishing.

I cut corners on the ends.

Then I sponewash on the ends hardener of the riva, grinding the nail file at the wife. And so several times until complete satisfaction. Final times wearing a hardener cut with a special tassel (in the photo with a black handle)

Approximately looks like cuts after processing

And so

One wallet from Crazy Horse decided to leave without cutting the riva. For a variety.

Well, the processing of finishing means. Three wallets are processed by one type of finishing, and the fourth one. What? I will not say! For not for advertising. If I'm interested in response to the LAN.